Pick Yourself Up, Dust Yourself Down by blinkiesays (M)

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Show: SGA

Rec Category: John/Rodney
Characters: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay
Pairings: John/Rodney
Categories: Slash
Warnings: None
Author’s Website: blinkiesays
Link: Pick Yourself Up, Dust Yourself Down

Why This Must Be Read: When Atlantis becomes a fully agrarian society, John goes from being a soldier and a pilot to raising barns and watching Bessie. It's not all that bad. Cute fun!

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Ghosts of Atlantis by NotTasha (T)

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Show: SGA

Rec Category: Rodney McKay

Characters: Rodney McKay, Team, Dumais

Pairings: None

Categories: gen

Words: 21248

Warnings: I don't think any apply, but it does feature some minor characters that previously died and are now ghosts. There is a moment or two where Rodney isn't sure he wants to return to the land of the living because he feels he isn't needed.

Author on DW: nottasha

Author's Website: NotTasha on AO3

Link: Ghosts of Atlantis


Author's Summary: Something mysterious happens to Rodney and he becomes disconnected from his body -- Leaving his body laying on the floor. His team worries while Rodney's consciousness wanders around Atlantis, running into the ghosts of those who have died. This is sort of a crossover or homage to the TV shows “Ghosts-UK” and "Ghosts CBS". There are ghosts in Atlantis that use the same ghost rules as the TV shows. Rodney learns that people care about him, not just his massive intelligence


Why this must be read: This is a newer fic by NotTasha which is such a gem because she's only recently returned to sga. (She has been writing since back when the show first aired. One of her most famous pieces is Warm Safe and Dry and it is sooooo good.) She gets McKay so well and she always digs into his guilt and inner strength in ways that just floor me. I love everything about this story. The fic takes place somewhere in season two, I'm guessing, and McKay is having an out of body experience in which he meets the ghosts haunting Atlantis. McKay's journey into the land of the ghosts is emotionally powerful and made my heart hurt for how little he understands he is loved beyond just his brain. NotTasha does this amazing thing where she can describe Ronon and Sheppard's concern for him and the reader gets it but Rodney, as the narrator, doesn't recognize this at all.

This fic is a fusion with the show Ghosts. You don't need to know anything from that show and there are no characters from it. NotTasha just plays with ideas from the show to develop her own version of ghosts in Atlantis.

Note: The first chapter at first may not seem to be kind in how it portrays McKay, but this is actually one of its greatest strengths! Why? Because we learn that how McKay sees the actions in chapter one is not at all how they really were or how others saw them. In reality, she has a wonderful, compassionate and kind take on Rodney. It's really lovely to see this written where the ghosts show him that he's so much more than he thinks of himself.

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